Latin Roots
The Plot & Magic
Characters
In the Waredrobe
Vocabulary
100

Latin root for Emperor, Allan’s father

What is Imperator?

100

Aslan’s animal species

What is a lion?

100

Youngest sibling and first to enter Narnia

Who is Lucy?

100

Sent to live with an old man due to air raids

Who is the Professor (Digory Kirk’s)?

100

Word Edmund‘s spiteful, insulting behavior

What is jeering (or sneering)?

200

Meaning of Lucy’s Latin root name LUX

What is light?


200
Excuse Peter and Susan use to take fur coats.

What is “the professor will not mind”?

200

Creature who befriends Lucy but plans to betray her

Who is Mr.Tumnus (the faun)?

200

Magical land hidden inside the furniture

What is Narnia?

200

9-letter word for the massive, winding house 

What is labyrinth?

300

Meaning of the ‘Paravel’ root PARARE

What is to prepare/make ready?

300

What Aslan uses to bring stone statues to life.

What is his breath?

300

Token given to Lucy, used later by Mr.Beaver

What is handkerchief?

300

Landmark lit by a single bulb at the border

What is a Lamp-post?

300

Crime Tumnus is accused of committing 

What is treason?

400

Meaning of the waredrobe root ROBA

What is clothing/robes?

400

What Aslan trades to save Edmund’s life.

What is his own life?

400

Sibling who eats Turkish Delight and betrays family 

Who is Edmund?

400

Specific piece of furniture they hide inside 

What is a wardrobe?

400

Rows of stone pillars in the castle courtyard 

What is a colonnade?

500

Meaning of Digory’s root DEGERERE

What is to wonder/go astray?

500

Object the four children must sit in to end the reign?

What is the four thrones at Cair Paravel?

500

Rightful King of Narnia and son of Emperor

Who is Aslan?

500

Amount of time that passes in the real world

What is no time at all?

500

Formal word for the Witch’s public decree/law

What is an edict?